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Re: m68k - Dropping the Motorola syntax
- From: Bernardo Innocenti <bernie at develer dot com>
- To: "William C. Cox" <bill at qswtools dot com>,Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 17:52:00 +0200
- Subject: Re: m68k - Dropping the Motorola syntax
- Organization: Develer S.r.l.
- References: <200308182331.h7INV0Q80658@thuvia.qswtools.com>
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 01:31, William C. Cox wrote:
> Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> > Of course I meant to remove the least used one, which is...
> > err... mumble mumble... the MIT syntax :-)
>
> Least used by whom? Wind River is still selling VxWorks kernels
> written in MIT format source code, with sources to some customers.
> Please don't invalidate that code by removing support for it!
> This proposal needs wider discussion...
GCC's output syntax is just a protocol between the compiler and the
assembler.
Assembly sources would still build perfectly as long as GAS supports
both syntaxes.
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// Bernardo Innocenti - Develer S.r.l., R&D dept.
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